This might sound surprising.I was reading the sanskrit version of Mahabharata,and the arguments on whether draupadi was rightly won or not.After the disrobing which was added later,vidura speaks against it.Then vikarna gets up and says she has not been won.karna realised that the situation was getting out of control.Draupadi was brought to the court,and duryodhana who was insulted earlier would do anything.Vikarna will be dismissed anyway.So he got up first.And first he supported Duryodhana and said draupadi has been rightly won as a wife is man's property and he can bet her anyway.This is to avoid the impression that he was opposed to draupadi being brought to the hall.Then the calls her a promiscious woman,to please duryodhana.And then accuses the pandavas of betting draupadi and lost.He also says about arjuna that he has no manhood or valour.This was sarcastic way of pointing out the mistakes done by them.And then says draupadi would not be a slave if she chooses another husband.he was actually pointing the way out for her to get out of slavery.if she stays as wife is pandavas,then she will be a slave.However according to dharmashahstras,if a woman chooses another husband then she would be freed from slavery.
So it is karna who first suggested draupadi how to get out of slavery.Then he says go to dhritarashtra's chambers and serve duryodhana and his brothers.He is now asking drauapdi to get away from the dice hall.This is a clever way of getting draupadi out of the dice hall.No one asked draupadi to get away.
But karna asked her to get away first.So karna is the first one to speak to protect draupadi in the dice hall.
Some people mistake karna's words as insult to draupadi,but when we look at the overall scenario,karna was right here.
